Rank:

Assistant Professor
Department of History

o Eastern Europe
o Modern Europe
o Gender
o Comparative Communist Systems

· “Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland"(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

· “Red State, Golden Youth: The Student Culture and Political Protest in Poland in the 1960s,” in Between the Avant Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe, 1958-2008, edited by Timothy Brown and Lorena Anton (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2011).
· “Recovering Women’s Voices in Communist Poland,” in Contesting Archives: Historians Develop Methodologies for Finding Women in the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 107-124.
· “Are You a Modern Girl? Consumer Culture and Young Women in 1960s Poland,” in Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe, edited by Shana Penn and Jill Massino (New York: Palgrave, 2009), 171-184.
· "A Nation’s Strength Lies Not in Numbers’: De-Stalinization, Pronatalism, and the Abortion Law of 1956 in Poland” in Geschlechterbeziehungen in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Soziale Praxis und Konstruktionen von Geschlechterbildern, edited by Claudia Kraft (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2007), 203-215.
· “Czy ‘nowy matriarchat’? Kobiety bez mezczyzn w Polsce po II wojnie swiatowej (A New Matriarchy? Single Women in Poland after World War II),” in Kobieta i rewolucja obyczajowa. Spoleczno-kulturowe aspekty seksualnosci. Wiek XIX i XX. (Woman and the Sexual Revolution. Social and Cultural Aspects of Sexuality), edited by Anna Zarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2006), 421-436.
· “Młode robotnice w mieście. Percepcje kobiecej seksualności w Polsce w latach pięć· dziesiątych XX-go wieku (Young Women Workers and the City. Perceptions of Female Sexuality in Poland in the 1950s),” in Kobieta i małżeństwo. Społeczno-kulturowe aspekty seksualności (Woman and Marriage. Social and Cultural Aspects of Sexuality), edited by Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2004), 453-475
· “Equality through Protection: The Politics of Women’s Employment in Postwar Poland, 1945-1956,” Slavic Review 63 (Summer 2004), 301-324.
· “’Participation in the Creative Work of the Nation:’ Polish Women Intellectuals in the Cultural Construction of Gender Roles, 1864-1890,” Journal of Women’s History 13 (Spring 2001): 108-13

Encyclopedia Articles:

· “Poland” in Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
· “Warsaw Pact” in Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2004, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (New York: Macmillan, forthcoming)

· Conference and Travel Grant, The Marie Curie Conference and Workshop Series, Conference on Shaping Europe in a Globalized World, Zurich, Switzerland, 23-27 June 2009.
· Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008-2009.
· Conference and Travel Grant, The Marie Curie Conference and Workshop Series, Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989, Summer School at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, 18-25 August 2008.
· Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, School of Humanities and Sciences and the Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2004-2005
· Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, 2004-2005
· Prize for Best Undergraduate Seminar Designed and Taught by a Graduate Student, “Women and Communism in Eastern Europe and Russia,” History, Stanford University, 2004
· IIE Fulbright Research Grant, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 2002-2003
· Department Fellowship, History, Stanford University, 1999-2004
· Summer Travel Research Grants, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, 2000, 2001, 2004   

Selected Papers and Presentations:

· “The Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe,” the Newberry Teachers’ Consortium, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 3 March 2010.
· “A Laboratory for Social Change? Gender and Work in Postwar Poland,” on the panel Industrial Workers and Postwar Central and Eastern Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 40th National Convention, Boston, MA, 12-15 November 2009.
· Panel Discussant, on the panel Writing and Performing Identity in Eastern Europe and Russia, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 40th National Convention, Boston, MA, 12-15 November 2009.
· “The Socialist Sixties: Preliminary Notes on the ‘Sixties’ in Poland,” Brownbag Seminar, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 23 September 2009.
· “Does Feminism Exist in Eastern Europe? The Western Gaze and Women’s Movements in Eastern Europe,” on the panel From Human Rights to Gendered Rights: Protest Ethics from the Private into the Public, Shaping Europe in a Globalized World? Protest Movements and the Rise of a Transnational Civil Society, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 23-27 June 2009.
· “Red State, Golden Youth: Consumerism, Politics, and the Student Culture in Poland in the 1960s,” on the panel Goods, Pleasures, and Wonderlands: Consumer Culture in Postwar Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 40th National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 20-23 November 2008.
· Panel Chair, on the panel Gendering East European Historiography, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 40th National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 20-23 November 2008.
· “In Search of Communist Modernity: Consumer Culture and Cold War Politics in 1960s Poland,” DeSantis Speaker Series, Department of History, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 14 November 2008.
· “Between Tradition and Revolution: Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland,” Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 12 November 2008.
· “Red State, Golden Youth: The Student Culture and Political Protest in Poland in the 1960s,” on the panel Youth and Countercultures, Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989, Summer School at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-25 August 2008.
· Panel Chair, on the panel Gendering Protest, Confronting Cold War conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989, Summer School at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-25 August 2008.
· “New Women and Old Communities: Gender and Coal Mining in Postwar Poland,” Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, 11 March 2008.
· “Sex after Stalinism: Defining Morality in Postwar Poland, 1950s-1960s,” on the panel Stalinism, De-Stalinization, and Sexuality, Seventh European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 26 February – 1 March 2008.
· “Sexual Politics and De-Stalinization in Poland,” Russian and East European Studies Workshop, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, University of Chicago, 27 November 2007.
· “Sexual Politics and De-Stalinization in Poland,” Russian and East European Reading Group, Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 19 November 2007.
· “The Years That Rocked the Bloc: Consumer Culture, Youth, and the Search for Identity in East-Central Europe in the 1960s,” on the panel Youth, Culture and Politics, New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Interdisciplinary Conference at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 13-16 June 2007.
· "A Nation’s Strength Lies Not in Numbers:’ De-Stalinization, Pronatalism, and the Abortion Law of 1956 in Poland,” on the panel Familie und Staat, Geschlechterverhältnisse in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Soziale Praxis und Konstruktionen von Geschlechterbildern, Bad Wiessee, Germany, 17-22 November 2005.
· “A New Matriarchy? Single Womanhood in Postwar Poland, 1945-1950,” on the panel Women, Family Formation, and the State in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36th National Convention, Boston, MA, 4-7 December 2004.
· "Panel Chair, on the panel Beauty Queens, Social Workers, and Students: Jewish Women in Russia and Poland, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36th National Convention, Boston, MA, 4-7 December 2004.
· “Mothers of Society: Women without Husbands in Postwar Poland, 1945-1948,” on the panel War, Revolution, and Sexuality, Sexuality and Culture Conference, Historical Institute, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 27-29 May 2004.
· “Women Workers in Postwar Transition: Textiles and Coalmining in Poland, 1945-1948,” Russian and East European Reading Group, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, 4 December 2003.
· “New Occupations and Traditional Hierarchies:’ The Case of Women Coal Miners in Postwar Poland, 1951-1957,” on the panel Work, Domesticity and the Marketplace: Women under Communism in Poland, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 35th National Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 20-23 November 2003.
· “Reinventing Gender: Women Industrial Workers and the State in Postwar Poland, 1945-1957,” 16th Annual Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, Wye River, MD, 8-11 August 2003.
· “Gender and Ideology: Women Workers’ Writings in Postwar Poland in the 1950s,” on the panel Women in Postwar Eastern Europe, Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA, 6-8 June 2003.
· “Histoire du travail des femmes en Silésie dans les années 1950,” Séminaire Doctoral en Sciences Sociales, French Studies Institute, University of Warsaw, Poland, 19 May 2003.
· “New Occupations’ and Traditional Hierarchies: The Case of Women Coal Miners in Postwar Poland, 1951-1957,” Polish Women’s History Commission, Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 9 April 2003.
· “Young Women Workers and the City: Perceptions of Female Sexuality in Poland in the 1950s,” Sexuality and Culture Conference, Historical Institute, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 26-27 September 2002.
· “Emancipated under Socialism: Women Workers in Postwar Poland, 1945-1957,” West Coast Eastern Europeanists’ Research/Training Seminar, Stanford University, 3-4 May 2002.

· Historiography of Modern Europe
· Stalinism in Eastern Europe
· Eastern European Borderlands
· History of Poland
· Women and Communism in Eastern Europe and Russia
· Gender and Work in Cross-Cultural Perspective
· Gender, Work, and Leisure in the Modern World

· Assistant Professor, History, University of Illinois-Chicago, August 2006-present
· Lecturer, History, Stanford University, Spring 2006
· Teaching Assistant/Instructor, History, Stanford University, 2000-2002, Spring 2004


Service:  

· Member and Chair of the European Field Admissions Committee, Graduate Advisory Committee, History Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2009-2010.
· Member, Search Committee for Endowed Chairs in Polish History and Polish Language/Literature, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2009.
· Course Coordinator, History Department, Central and Eastern European Studies 400, team-taught interdisciplinary course for Central and Eastern European Studies undergraduate and MA concentration, Fall 2009.
· Invited Expert, “Polish History at UIC,” radio program “Co słychac (What’s New),” Polish Radio, Chicago, IL, aired 4 May 2009 and 10 May 2009.
· Invited Expert, “Studying Polish History at UIC”; television program “Z daleka a z bliska (From a Far, but Up Close),” TV Polonia, Polish Television, SA, aired 19 March, 2009.
· Member, Editorial Board, Aspasia: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, 2008-present.
· Member, Undergraduate Advisory Committee, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006-2008.
· Member, Goodman Prize Committee (prize for outstanding academic performance as an undergraduate History major), Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006-2008.